"ChatGPT, how do I use a Java SQL connector?"
"Duplicate question, closed"
Are we sure this deal is about answering new SO questions with LLM? It's more likely to be a deal where SO sells access to its database to OpenAI so they can use human-generated content for LLM training, and SO gets to use LLM as a more efficient search through its human-generated content.
It's possible they could also choose to delegate the duplicate decision to the LLM but let's be honest, that decision is currently crap anyway.
I think the joke is that the AI trained on SO data to the point that duplicate, similar, or common questions would get this treatment. Since that's common enough on SO to be a meme.
Okay, but on current hardware/OS the previous solution is no longer valid... Hello?!
Have you tried using Windows 11 instead of your weird Linux distro? Windows 11 is the best Operation system in the market, by the greatest software company Microsoft. It features the best user experience, not only removing all those complicated settings from your grasp but providing you with suggestions tailored just for you!
What annoys me about companies like StackOverflow, Reddit, Twitter, etc. partnering with AI firms is that they do not actually create any of the content on their platforms. Sure, if you read the terms they technically own the data, but still...
Just more nonsense showing how broken modern copyright is. It's too hard to write weasely legalese to just say you have the right to reproduce content submitted to your website, you have to own it entirely. And if you own it, why not sell it?
It's not difficult at all, these companies just have no reason to do it that way. They force you to agree to their terms before you can use the website at all, which means they're in a much better position to make demands. We can't counter with anything, it's just "agree that we own this copy of your content".
And most of us agree to it because we have no way of knowing that someday our content might actually be worth something.
That's basically what most tech companies are trying to optimize these days, the ability to make money off of other people's work. It's why they're so hyped about trying to use AI to replace the very workers it's trained on.
Most of modern civilization wasn't built by the current S&P500 — most of them didn't exist 50 years ago, let alone 100 — it was built by humanity, collectively, over thousands of years.
That fact won't stop any individual or corporation from trying to claim absolute dominion over the entire human population, all derivative works and resources, or the rest of our descendants futures, for all eternity.
The goal of every thief is to take something of value from someone else without any repercussions for themselves.
Can't wait to get insulted by the AI for asking a "stupid" question and be told the answer has already been asked without a link but with a passive aggressive tone hinting my family tree might have been close knit akin to a thumbleweed.
Or being to to google the problem with the only result being the question you just asked.
We will fondly look back on the days of finding highly specific dead forum threads that are a decade or more old about the issue we were having.
DUPLICATE COMMENT
Yeah but a lot of people don't really know what SO is for. They think you just go there and get help and call it a day. But the entire point is to produce structured questions, discourse, and answers aimed at future readers. Super specific, no-context, or duplicate problems are not useful. If you are not trying to generate useful content, don't go to SO.
Just look at all the people getting frustrated at being told "you should probably do it a different way." They really don't understand that just because they're asking the question, it's not all about them.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying it's not the friendliest way to enthuse beginners to this way of working.
I get it's frustrating, but when you're asking your first question ever, it feels like paying for everyone else. xD
Now they partner with OpenAI after banning AI answers provided by users? Wow, such hypocrisy https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/policy-generative-ai-e-g-chatgpt-is-banned
Now they're getting paid, so fuck you!
That exactly tracks. You can't feed answers from an AI into an AI. It gets all incesty (technical term). So they have to ban user submitted AI answers.
Were they trying to avoid having AI produced output sold as LLM input along with their human user generated content? I wonder if this was some big picture decision or pure coincidence.
Chatgpt: How do I kill all the children in this thread?
As a AI model I'm not allowed to promote violence against... Also since children are involved this case was reported to your local enforcement agency
Jesus fuck, don’t take Stack away. I rely on it.
A match made in hell
Are you serious? Such a great loss.
On the plus side, it can't get any worse.
As an AI language model I'm not able to answer duplicate questions and this was asked before. Closing.
lol this is going to be fantastically catastrophic. ChatGPT is going to end up indirectly writing so much code. And I am fully aware how often ChatGPT give you absolute nonsense when asked to write some code. It’s got a decently high hit rate for relatively unchallenging stuff, but it is nowhere NEAR 100% accurate.
TL;DR stackoverflow doesn’t understand how many developers naively copypaste shit from stackoverflow I guess? Wcgw
AI will be the downfall of AI
I'm more worried about Stack ruining gpt than gpt ruining stack.
Me: How would I write a for-loop that starts from the end of a list?
ChatGPT: Closing this conversation as this question has already been answered.
The working solution being 5 child comments deep on a wrong solution flagged as correct is my favorite.
But all user contributions on StackOverflow licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0... right?
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit
So, if Stack Overflow generates text based on any answer (or question) in Stack Overflow's DB, it must credit the person whose text it adapted.
Good luck with that...
Stack trying to remain relevant
Oops! All Wrong Answers!
Why is the OpenAI logo an anus?
OH. Oh right. Sorry. Withdrawn.
Makes sense, don't MS own SO, GH, OAI, and Minecraft?
Don't forget NPM.
And, while we're at it:
Cool, I guess I'll go delete all my stuff...
glad i deleted my acct years ago
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
the reason I go to stack overflow is the answers arent hallucinated by an AI
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
